Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pygmy Cupwing Pnoepyga pusilla

  

  The Pygmy Cupwing is a small bird with a very short tail and scaled-looking brown plumage. It forages in dense understory and near the forest floor.

• Sun bear Helarctos malayanus

  

  A small bear of Southeast Asian tropical forests, with short black fur and round ears. Many have a pale chest marking.

• African Oystercatcher Haematopus moquini

  

  The African Oystercatcher is a black shorebird of southern Africa's coasts, with a bright orange-red bill and pink legs.

• Kiang Equus kiang

  

  A wild ass that lives on the Tibetan Plateau.

• Grey-collared Oriole Oriolus forsteni

  

  The Grey-collared Oriole is endemic to Seram in Indonesia’s southern Moluccan Islands. It uses primary forest from lowlands to mountains, foraging from the canopy to the middle storey.

• Bolivian Red Howler Alouatta sara

  

  The Bolivian red howler is a large howler monkey of lowland tropical and subtropical forests in South America. It mainly eats leaves, fruit, and flowers, and gives loud calls.

• Malia Malia grata

  Malia is endemic to Sulawesi. It is olive above and greenish yellow below and associated with montane forest.

• Mountain Pygmy Possum Burramys parvus

  The mountain pygmy possum is a small mammal adapted to Australia's alpine zone. It is known to store food and hibernate for long periods.

• Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria

  The Wallcreeper walks over rock faces to search crevices for insects. It lives in mountains during breeding and moves to lower areas in winter.

• Mountain Tapir Tapirus pinchaque

  The mountain tapir lives in the Andes of northern South America and has a thick coat suited to its cold mountain home.

• Roraiman Barbtail Roraimia adusta

  Adults have a broad bright chestnut eyebrow reaching the nape, dark eye-area feathers, a white throat and brown-and-buff streaking below. In Guyana's wet mossy high forests, it searches vertical moss-covered surfaces for insects.

• South African springhare Pedetes capensis

  A nocturnal animal of southern Africa that makes long leaps and hides in burrows it digs itself.

• Livingstone's Flycatcher Erythrocercus livingstonei

  This small flycatcher occurs in south-eastern Africa. It moves through the middle and upper canopy for insects, usually in pairs or small family groups.

• Volcan de Toluca Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys planiceps

  This pocket gopher is known from Mexico's volcanic region. Its back is dark, with lighter brown mixed into the fur along its sides.

• Tit Berrypecker Oreocharis arfaki

  The Tit Berrypecker is a fruit-eating bird of New Guinea’s montane forest. Males show bright yellow and orange, while females are mainly olive and gray.

• Yellow-striped Chevrotain Moschiola kathygre

  This small chevrotain is endemic to Sri Lanka. It has warm ochre-brown fur with yellow spots and stripes, and is recorded from wet-zone forests as well as paddies, plantations, and gardens.

• Indian Roller Coracias benghalensis

  A striking blue bird of open habitats in India. It scans for insects from exposed branches or power lines.

• Highlands Punaré Thrichomys inermis

  This spiny rat is recorded from Bahia north to Tocantins in Brazil. In the semiarid Caatinga, it uses rock crevices as shelter and nesting places.

• Four-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles quadricinctus

  This sandgrouse has sandy plumage crossed by dark bands. It occurs in dry savanna and cultivated areas, alone in pairs or small groups.

• Brown-eared Woolly Opossum Caluromys lanatus

  The brown-eared woolly opossum is an arboreal marsupial with a dense coat and a long, grasping tail. It lives in South American forests.

• Rand's Warbler Randia pseudozosterops

  Rand's Warbler is endemic to eastern Madagascar's humid lowland forest. It has an olive-gray head with a prominent pale eyebrow and forages for insects in treetops.

• Gilbert's Potoroo Potorous gilbertii

  Gilbert’s Potoroo is a nocturnal marsupial that digs with long claws and feeds mainly on fungi growing underground. By day it rests in a nest beneath sedges or bushes.

• Toucan Barbet Semnornis ramphastinus

  The Toucan Barbet is stout and medium-sized. Males have a glossy black nuchal tuft that females lack. It occurs in the mountains of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador and mainly eats fruit. At the study site, territorial groups bred in tree cavities.

• Brown Hyena Parahyaena brunnea

  A hyena of southern Africa's dry regions that is mostly active at night.